Charlie's Here!
Promotion for the new transit cards that will make tokens a thing of the past.
"Charlie," of course, is the guy who can't get off the subway in the old Boston political campaign song that the Kingston Trio made into a national hit in the Fifties. It was called "MTA" then (the old name for the MBTA), but most people know it as "Charlie on the MTA":
"Well, did he ever return?
No, he never returned,
And his fate is still unlearned.
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston,
He's the man who never returned."
Charlie's Here!
Promotion for the new transit cards that will make tokens a thing of the past.
"Charlie," of course, is the guy who can't get off the subway in the old Boston political campaign song that the Kingston Trio made into a national hit in the Fifties. It was called "MTA" then (the old name for the MBTA), but most people know it as "Charlie on the MTA":
"Well, did he ever return?
No, he never returned,
And his fate is still unlearned.
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston,
He's the man who never returned."